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When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.

Roald Dahl

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Fabulous Flight Journey Travel World
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Couple Love Matter
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Absolute Appreciation Delight Home Impossible School Young
The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.
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Absorb Beautiful Book Children Excitement Fall In Love Function Funny Prime
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Funny Humour One Liner World
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Book Done Life Reading View
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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Book Children Writing
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
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Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Accomplishment Book Children Help Important Reading Success
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Chocolate History Teacher
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Come Demand Fear Fiction Ideas Writer
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.
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Children Humour Murder Myself Old Possible
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Important Modesty Oneself Strive Truth Writing
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing

When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.

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